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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia - A Discussion with Author Dr. Elizabeth Catte Community Event Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte’s Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Join us as we invite Dr. Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia , to discuss her new book Pure America and the legacy of the eugenics movement in the American South and beyond. ....
Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today. ARTHUR ESTABROOK PAPERS; M.E. GRENANDER SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES; UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma, at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924 The top-down quest for social control in America often seems to lead, by a deep-seated sort of homing instinct, to schemes of reproductive coercion. Tucker Carlson’s recent fulminations about racial “replacement theory” are but the latest in a long line of pseudo-Darwinian depictions of social decline. Carlson himself, of course, was cribbing his ugly tirade from the baldly fascist speculations of scores of alt-right propagandists, who in turn gained unprecedented access to state power via the labors of racist Trump apparatchiks like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. ....
In Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia, Dr. Elizabeth Catte expertly investigates and contextualizes the local history of eugenics in Staunton, Virginia. The story of the former Western State Lunatic Asylum now renovated as a luxury hotel and pricey condos demonstrates how race, gender, class and capitalism intersect in the American eugenics movement to uphold white supremacy, control women, and exploit disabled and impoverished people. Catte stresses that this history is not “forgotten,” but rather has been purposely omitted by those in power. Furthermore, her book reveals that eugenics still influence our society today. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Catte about her latest book, ....
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